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P A U L C R A I G R O B E R T S My work documenting how the law was lost began about a quarter of a century ago. A close friend and distinguished attorney, Dean Booth, first brought to my attention the erosion of the legal principles on which[continue reading…]

American Jews contemplating aliyah (immigration) to Israel may want to do some serious financial research before taking the plunge. This article assumes that the new immigrant (olei hadash) has or will acquire dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship. There are several U.S. laws which will impact on olim (immigrants). Olim will need not only to be aware of[continue reading…]

LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In “The Grand Design,” co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of[continue reading…]

(Israel National News) Researchers at Haifa University have discovered why learning to read Arabic is hard – and it has to do with the “right brain.” Haifa University’s Professor Zohar Eviatar and neuropsychologist Dr. Rafik Ibrahim of Rambam Medical Center have shown that the complexities of the Arabic language impede the right brain from taking[continue reading…]

16-year-old girl pleads to Petah Tikva police for help, claiming married man raped her in motel room. (Jerusalem Post) Police arrested a 35-year-old man in a Petah Tikva motel last week on suspicion of kidnapping, beating and brutally raping a 16-year-old girl. The victim and the suspect, named as Lior Yona, became acquainted several weeks[continue reading…]

(Associated Press) STOCKHOLM – New evidence from Russian archives suggests Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was alive after Soviets reported that he had died in a Moscow prison, a Swedish magazine and U.S. researchers reported Thursday. The fate of Wallenberg, who was arrested in[continue reading…]

(The Times of London) For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated[continue reading…]

(DEBKAfile) US president Barack Obama kept on turning the screw on Israeli minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, March 24, after their harsh conversation in the White House Tuesday: Netanyahu was told bluntly to issue a White House-dictated public pledge before leaving Washington for home to eschew further construction in East Jerusalem, or else face a US[continue reading…]

Experts estimate between 20,000 to 30,000 Jews, including Americans and Israelis, live in the German capital. (Associated Press) BERLIN — When American Rabbi Joshua Spinner moved to Berlin’s trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood a decade ago, there were no other Jews to be seen. Now when the sun sets on a Friday night, dozens of Jewish[continue reading…]

(IsraelNN.com) Worrisome escalations in arms stockpiling by Hamas and Hizbullah have convinced defense analysts that another war with Israel is on the horizon this year or in 2011, according to the highly respected Aviation Week. The publication relied on intelligence estimates that the two terrorist organizations, sponsored by Iran and Syria, have armed themselves far[continue reading…]